Thank you God for the miracle – for the
miracle I see
Thank you God for the miracle that’s looking
back at me

At the break of dawn I see miracles in the
mornings early light

I see miracles in the mirror when my heart
sees with your sight

I see miracles in the sunshine and the faces
on the street

I see miracles in the heavens and the children at my feet

For all the gifts of miracles let my heart
here overflow

Let my love for all these miracles continue
now to grow

May each blessing of these miracles never
cease to fill my days

For the wonder of these miracles deserve
laughter, love and praise

by Kira Wagner

You still have the opportunity to join me this Saturday at the Skirball Center in LA as I serve as an Empowerment Leader and join with hundreds of women including Marsh Engle, founder of Amazing Women’s Day, Michele Bohbot of BISOU BISOU, Dr. Sharron Stroud the Spiritual Leader of Innerfaith Ministries Worldwide in Palm Springs, CA, and Carolyn Leighton, Chairwoman/Founder of WITI.

Amazing Woman’s Day 2008 has joined with CARE to empower the well-being of women the world over. CARE is a global organization that places special focus on working
alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the
power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women
and girls make up 70 percent of the poorest people in the world today. But
CARE knows women hold the key to overcoming poverty.

The
event is going to be incredible – to take part in what I believe, will be the event of the month or to find out more information go to http://www.amazingwomansday2008.com

Join me and embrace your freedom to be the Amazing Woman You ARE!

Love,
Kira

Here are two questions for you…

Have you ever listened to YOUR Audio Business Card (or elevator speech)?

If you are like most of us the answer is probably “no”. So, if not, why would you expect someone else to listen much less be intrigued?

Isn’t that what you are after? You network to build your business right? That 30 seconds may be the only time you have to attract someone’s attention. You invest time and money to attend the event and then – you’re going to get clients because your product or service is so good they
can’t refuse, right? Wrong!

I know we tend to be very critical of ourselves. In 30 years there isn’t an excuse or reason I haven’t heard or used to avoid an honest self-appraisal of a performance or presentation.

Writing down your ABC, let alone listening to yourselves recite it, is not a comfortable thing to do. Sometimes the reason is a simple as – if I do not like it and I rewrite it then what? I keep going through the
same process and getting the same results, isn’t that the definition of insanity?

That is why Global Connections Networking encourages everyone to record your ABC. Everyone who attends a virtual meeting has the opportunity to do so free of charge. You record it, listen to it and then
rerecord it should you choose. You now use that presentation to market your business during the online networking meetings.

On the other hand – what if you know it can be better. You hear the quivering in your voice. Your words sound so similar to others in your profession that it seems the only difference between you and them is your name. Yet, you KNOW you are different. You know your doing what you were born to do. Your passion, your knowledge and your expertise are clear indicators that clients should be beating a path to your door. And they are not.

So you can ramp it up by taking advantage of the fact that Global Connections Networking provides members up to two hours free coaching on their Audio Business Card – content and delivery per quartet. It is one of the basic benefits of membership.

The team at GCN reviews the content from a sales and marketing perspective so your words will attract the referrals you desire. Once the content has a solid base, we help make sure that the delivery is smooth and confident.

Now, once it is perfected, you have to be present to deliver it, right?

Not any more.

GCN posts your ABC on your GCN web page and provides the audio file to put it on your own (separate) website should you choose. Now, when someone has a referral to send you they have the opportunity to hear you first so that when you do connect – it is a more qualified lead. They have heard your voice, your energy, your pitch and they liked what they heard.

Check it out and take advantage of the next virtual meeting or join GCN and make your Audio Business Card, your elevator speech, something that makes that 30 second marketing opportunity something that works for you today!

In all of your tomorrows – should there come a time where you need a hand to lift your spirits – may you find it here. With the help of a few friends and some time I’ve compiled a list of songs that help me “get through” the tough times.

May 2008 be a GREAT year.

These songs are simply arranged in alphabetical order and if the embedding option didn’t exist I left the link so you just have to click on it to listen/watch.

With 33 selections you’ll find the selection fairly eclectic – just like I am – ranging from Opera to Broadway and Rock to Rap.

God Bless and Happy New Year.

Love,
Kira

Amazing Grace Leann Rimes http://youtube.com/watch?v=iT88jBAoVIM

Angels Among Us Alabama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMB62g-A3Hk

Calling All Angels Train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAKF3_hCSNs

Can You Feel the Love tonight Elton John  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGDrV_2ehI

Candle on the water (Pete’s Dragon) Annaliese Van Der Pol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW5ZGLEiW1o

Don’t Rain On My Parade (Funny Girl) Barbara Strisand http://youtube.com/watch?v=JAVlk4F2qkw

Everybody Says Don’t Anyone Can Whistle http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJOwbrbswyc

For Good (Wicked)    Wicked    http://youtube.com/watch?v=05jdB1tGE_g

Friends    Michael W Smith    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCJAVlESEo

From a Distance    Bette Midler    http://youtube.com/watch?v=i5_YAj9lCQc

Hero    Mariah Carey    http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWlS8Oerx8o

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands    Tanya Tucker    http://youtube.com/watch?v=guyrERfsCB8

High Hopes    Frank Sinatra (Flower Drum Song)    http://youtube.com/watch?v=mlsitMRQAdA

Hope    Twista    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1sRFbsKDY 

I Believe    Elvis Presley    http://youtube.com/watch?v=YztqE6QzCww

I hope you dance    Lee Ann Womack    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQfERb9HVk

If You’re Reading This    Tim McGraw     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ixC-LYDGc

Imagine    John Lennon    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

Impossible (Cinderella)    Lesley Ann Warren & Celeste Holm    http://youtube.com/watch?v=JKK_tq-VBk8

It’s My Life    Bon Jovi    http://youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6USo8fQ

Live Like You Were Dying    Tim McGraw    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHaFMqde6A

One Moment in Time     Whitney Houston    http://youtube.com/watch?v=8EbYmMb4lR4

Somethings Coming    Westside Story    http://youtube.com/watch?v=xu7sRdRrm_w

Talk To Me    Angelix Listen to the audio on myspace

The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)    Sung By Donna Summer     http://youtube.com/watch?v=yZvtcuTeJ4I

The Prayer   
Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli http://youtube.com/watch?v=db1-IlnW2YY

The Rose    Bette Midler    http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIBUaMe37B8

This Little Light of Mine    Sydney Ellis Gospel Quartet    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Vn6HJRiVyE

Waiting On The World To Change    John Mayer    http://youtube.com/watch?v=hKnF9CCYQPQ

When You Walk Through a Storm    Katherine Jenkins    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffBIOTP5vtg

Wind Beneath My wings    Bette Midler    http://youtube.com/watch?v=9d9l8K7xOYM

Wonderful World    Louis Armstrong    http://youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc

You Light Up My    Debbie Boone    http://youtube.com/watch?v=wxo0lsJnx-U

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah    Song of the South    http://youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ

To you the reader today I hope you realize these three points

1. there is no such thing as a "loss"
2. how much you have won
3. how blessed you are

This little email that circulates at least once a year is well worth repeating but I thought I’d like it somewhere for all to see and ponder.

It isn’t the letters after your name nor the awards nor any fancy title that makes a difference in the long run – it’s the hope, the smiles, the inspiration and the love you’ve given to everyone you encounter that makes your life full and free.

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just read straight through, and you’ll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America Contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress..
6. Name the last decade’s worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. They are not second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here’s another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with. 

Easier?

The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are NOT the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones who care.

Feel free to share this with those who have made a difference in your life.

‘Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia .. ‘
(Charles Schultz)

Thank you Kira for today’s WORDS of wisdom about FEAR.

Most of the time I always knew how to overcome fear in many situations of
my life, but right now it is very hard for me – I feel stuck.

I am in a very difficult situation financially and one can not help it to
worry what will happen I am trying very hard to stay focused and upbeat,but
it is easier said then done.I am waiting for the phone call about the
perfect JOB I applied for so please pray for me.

I count my blessings every day Kira.

What I have doubted is the “rightness of now” if you will. The knowing that this moment is perfect or “as it should be” has been called into question again and again. I have met those who tell me “I’m not afraid of anything”. I now know it was a mirror of my profuse declaration that “I’m not angry”. I don’t get angry. In the end it is all the same. It’s a way of hiding. Using the “I’m not…” is nothing more than a belief that these words will actually work as some kind of self protection. 

I’ve been talking about writing this book for over a year now – and to those of you who said “I can’t wait – let me know as soon as you’re done” thank you for believing in me! I have more empathy for authors who write a series of books and all of a sudden the "next installment" is so long in materializing.

There was more of the journey to complete before this could be penned.

I didn’t think it would be this hard. I mean the last book took me a couple of months to write from the time I started until it was “finished” and I thought that was how it was supposed to be for me.

Sure there were times when I hated it – I didn’t want to write in the first place. Or I didn’t think I did. But that is for later. I recall Jack saying, “It ONLY took you 8 weeks to write this. I’ve been working on mine for four years!” Like I was doing something “wrong”? He was the one that told me I needed a book in the first place and that my keynote speech “wasn’t”. It was more like a seminar or workshop so I might as well write "the book of it".

Then the inspiration hit to write about something that was such an AH-HA for me. Share my experience in the transformation within the confines of my relationship with my husband and the boudoir.

How many married women know what it means to “fake it till you make it” in the bedroom?

How many married women never get to that “make it” part?

I can’t tell you how many women believe that their husbands don’t know that they are faking it. I thought so. But you can’t hide that … not really.

Sex had changed so drastically for me that I wanted to write about it, about the possibilities, the incredible fulfillment and release when a woman brings all of her “self” to that most intimate relationship.

Then I started taking a look at the “parts”. The sex itself. I mean doesn’t it start there? The foreplay, the copulation, the orgasm. And it all stopped.

Nothing.

In fact, making love, started to become “just sex” again as I tried to dissect it. Oh there was still a major difference; I could have an orgasm with just being with my husband. I didn’t need any of the external toys. But it was loosing something.

So I told myself that maybe this book just was a “BSO” (bright shiny object) or distraction as my friend Melanie likes to call things that deter us from completing a project.

I let go of the vision and once again, turned my thoughts – my energy, to what I thought would be a profitable venture. I have spent the last 8 months creating a company. 

It finally hit me when I was working on a big dream vision and had so many “buts’” that I was asking and helping others to find their passion while I was very carefully avoiding mine.

While I was beginning to see results – it still was one-off, if you will, from the peace of being in complete alignment with who I am.

Sexual Freedom exists when you, I, or anyone for that matter, is truly FREE. When we are empowered to face the fears, to laugh at our so called weaknesses and be present.

Freedom happens when we acknowledge, somewhere deep down inside, that NOW is all that we have. It’s ALL that matters. It’s the ability to know that if I left this earth this very moment I will have lived a full life and made the most of every moment.

Freedom is not wishing that I had done _____ yesterday or last week or last year, or even ten years ago. It’s letting go of the “if only” energy. It’s dropping the “tomorrow” or “someday” I’ll syndrome. That Someday Isle only exists in our imaginations.

We get hung up in the fear or recrimination or guilt of what we didn’t do. Little things like sending our kids off to school without saying, “I love you” as they walk out the door, going to bed upset with your spouse. It’s the frustration with ourselves when we don’t listen to the small voice that says “you can do this” and then putting our innermost dreams upon some shelf that gets in the way of “now”.

So this book is all of this together. It’s looking inside and embracing to the ability to be present and enjoy the now. It is about acknowledging and quieting the committee. Those voices in your head, which tell you, “you should have done…”, “why did/didn’t you…”… you get the idea.

It is being OK with the “why me” and “poor me” self-talk. Letting go of the good/bad, right/wrong language of others.

It’s asking the intimate questions and ultimately knowing the truth in the statement, “This too shall pass.”

You’ll find enlightenment here – or you won’t. It’ll be your choice. And you’ll agree with me or you won’t. I know that too. There have been times when I didn’t agree with me!

Whatever your choice, I wish you well. I wish for you all of the Freedom you can possibly embrace.

Thank you for being part of my journey.